Can you beleive that the first hair dryer was the VACUM CLEANER?! Around the turn of the century, women dried their hair by connecting a hose to the exhaust of their vacuum cleaners. In early models, the front of a vacuum cleaner sucked air in, the back blew air out, and the hose could be attached to either end.
In 1920, the first true hair dryer came on the market, but it was extremely large and heavy, and frequently overheated. Since then, thousands of patents have been issued for different hair dryer designs, but most of them only tweak the outside packaging of the hairdryer so that it looks more aesthetically appealing to you. Aside from the addition of some safety features, the inside of a hair dryer hasn't changed too much over the years. Not until 1951 was the first really workable dryer made. The device consisted of a hand-held dryer connected to a pink plastic bonnet fitted over the woman’s head.
You can always visit http://www.allenisd.org/facstaff2.nsf/Pages/3465526C7D5B41E48625706F00595D05
for a fuller understanding of the way these hair dryers worked!
It’s funny how now a hair dryer can now be held in your hand. These old one look really huge and possibly dangerous. I'm not sure using the exhaust of a vacuum was a smart idea but it has led to an invention which I can say my wife could not live without. They were very creepy looking. The one looks like cannon and the other looks like a torture device
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